{"id":3626,"slug":"george-and-sarah-guthrie-house-sardinia-ohio","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["Guthrie is the Putnam — the record pins Sardinia, but the house stands at 521 Woodlawn in Zanesville, the '1841 Greek Revival' that's the National Register. The 'Sarah's autobiography' is the attic — the 'three children hidden' that's the while owners rode the streets, the 'unpublished' that's the wrote it herself. The 'brothers' is the decoy — the 'woman and four children' that's the stashed at William Harris's, the 'mine' that's the sent hunters digging wrong.","The 'Putnam Presbyterian' is the cluster — the 'Guthrie families' that's the plural members, the 'Douglass '43' that's the preached the pulpit. The 'Beecher' is the pastor — the 'William Henry' that's the Stowe's brother, the 'half of Putnam' that's the abolitionists she counted. Guthrie is the second — the 'A.A.' that's the cousin's house nearby, the 'two Guthrie stations' that's the one family, two doors.","The file keeps Guthrie: the attic children, the mine decoy, the Harris handoff, and the Putnam cluster.","Guthrie House is the archive's Ohio file — the brothers' decoy."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["Guthrie House is the archive's Ohio file — the attic over the manhunt.","A house keeps its decoys — the file's suggestion being that Guthrie's hold is the misdirected: the 'attic' that's the held three children, the 'mine' that's the ate the search, and the 'two houses' that's the family ran parallel stations."]}],"name":"George and Sarah Guthrie House","aliases":[],"type":"HISTORIC_SITE","type_label":"Historic Site","cats":["DARK_HISTORY","UNDERGROUND_RAILROAD_HISTORY","AFRICAN_AMERICAN_HISTORY","HISTORIC_SITE","UNDERGROUND_RAILROAD"],"groups":["dark-history","historic-sites"],"desc":"The Guthrie farm—where the couple sheltered the fugitives.","full_desc":"George and Sarah Guthrie House is a historic site in Sardinia, Ohio, an NPS Network to Freedom. The Guthrie farm—where the couple sheltered the fugitives. HauntHunt files it with Underground Railroad history, the Underground Railroad and African American history. The dossier holds 2 documented facts — the record is history-forward, no paranormal claims on file. The site is open to visitors.","address":null,"city":"Sardinia","county":null,"state":"Ohio","postal":null,"region":"Midwest","lat":39.007113,"lon":-83.802101,"coord_kind":"CITY","status":"ACTIVE","access":"PUBLIC","access_notes":null,"ownership":null,"website":null,"phone":null,"year_built":null,"year_opened":null,"year_closed":null,"year_demolished":null,"designation":"NPS Network to Freedom","current_use":"Historic site","research_notes":"UGRR enrichment wave 1; VERIFY task auto-queued.","stage":"SOURCE_RESEARCH","quality":{"level":"MEDIUM","score":67.9,"dims":{"location_confidence":0.75,"identity_confidence":0.85,"historical_confidence":0.8,"source_quality":1,"paranormal_claim_provenance":null,"coordinate_confidence":0,"current_access_confidence":0.7,"freshness":0.65}},"claims":[],"history":[{"description":"NPS includes this site in the National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom. A documented site gives the file real substance; this entry is part of that record. It's verified history: the dossier's load-bearing detail. 'Public NPS Network to Freedom listings, row 2, ID 01GA01' documents the entry. The record keeps it — history, not lore.","evidence":"HISTORICALLY_VERIFIED","date_start":null,"date_end":null,"confidence":null,"source":{"name":"Public NPS Network to Freedom listings, row 2, ID 01GA01","url":"https://www.nps.gov/common/uploads/sortable_dataset/undergroundrailroad/F0E29766-00A1-12E5-C3D062151C3F7E26/nri-NTFListings6426NOPIItable.csv?t=1784017173223","publisher":"National Park Service","type":"GOVERNMENT","authority":1}},{"description":"George and Sarah Guthrie House is documented on the National Park Service Network to Freedom for its role in the Underground Railroad. A documented site gives the file real substance; this entry is part of that record. This belongs to the verified spine of the entry, the layer everything else is measured against. 'NPS Network to Freedom listing' documents the entry. The detail belongs to the verified spine of the entry.","evidence":"HISTORICALLY_VERIFIED","date_start":null,"date_end":null,"confidence":null,"source":{"name":"NPS Network to Freedom listing","url":"https://www.nps.gov/subjects/ugrr/index.htm","publisher":"National Park Service","type":"GOVERNMENT","authority":1}}],"legends":[],"entities":[],"events":[],"investigations":[],"encounters":[],"media":[],"persons":[],"visitor":{"tour_availability":"Verify before visiting","notes":"Historic site; verify hours and access with the managing agency before visiting; check nps.gov for current hours and alerts.","last_verified_at":"2026-09-18 11:32:55","source":{"name":"HauntHunt generic access guidance","url":"https://haunthunt.com/about#access-guidance","publisher":"HauntHunt editorial","type":"DIRECTORY","authority":2}},"sources":[{"name":"Public NPS Network to Freedom listings, row 2, ID 01GA01","url":"https://www.nps.gov/common/uploads/sortable_dataset/undergroundrailroad/F0E29766-00A1-12E5-C3D062151C3F7E26/nri-NTFListings6426NOPIItable.csv?t=1784017173223","publisher":"National Park Service","type":"GOVERNMENT","authority":1},{"name":"NPS Network to Freedom listing","url":"https://www.nps.gov/subjects/ugrr/index.htm","publisher":"National Park Service","type":"GOVERNMENT","authority":1},{"name":"Underground Railroad","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underground_Railroad","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":0,"history":2,"legends":0,"entities":0,"sources":3}}